Washington, D.C. -- 1980. Professor Harold Berwyn is dead, a psychopathic killer is on the loose, and Ronald Reagan is running for president. But none of this matters to graduate creative writing student Skip Gershwin. He only wants two things -- the perfect girlfriend and godlike fame. Can a poet this self-absorbed manage to save humanity from total destruction? "A rollicking and sexy madcap adventure, clever and funny and brilliantly written and paced" -- Terence Kuch, author of Try Try Again